Brook Deedes
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Brooke Deedes (12 January 1847[1] – 28 October 1922) was an Anglican priest in the last three decades of the 19th century and the first three of the 20th.[2]
He was born in Sandling Park, Kent, the son of William Deedes senior, M.P. and younger brother of William Deedes junior, M.P.[3] He was educated at Harrow[4] and Christ Church, Oxford;[5] and ordained in 1871. After a curacy at St Mary, Charterhouse Square[6] he was Vicar of St Crispin, Bermondsey then Chaplain to the Bishop of Calcutta.[7] He then served at Allahabad from 1885 to 1892 when he became the Archdeacon of Lucknow[8] He was the incumbent at Hawkhurst from 1897 to 1900;[9] Hampstead from 1900 to 1912; and St Vedast, Foster Lane from 1912 to 1920. He was also the inaugural Archdeacon of Hampstead, serving from 1912 to 1920.[10]
Deedes died on 28 October 1922.[11]